Social Franchising

If you want to set up a Gig Buddies project in your part of the world do read on and you can find out more about how this will work for you.

Gig Buddies was started by the charity Stay Up Late, in Sussex, UK. Because of the success of the project, it is now a social franchise. We’re calling this project ‘Gig Buddies in a Box‘ and we’re currently working with a number of partners to get Gig Buddies going in other parts of the UK (and possibly other countries) throughout 2016.

We’ve created a website to explain how this works more and ‘What’s in the box!’

What’s most important to us is that wherever the project is replicated it sticks to these core principles:

It’s about friendships – real friendships

It’s about doing mainstream cultural things in your community

It’s about people with learning disabilities making real choices about the way they lead their lives

It’s about creating a project that is led by people with learning disabilities

Those are the things that can’t change with the project but it will look different in every part of the country so if you’re up for being part of the growing community of buddies do get in touch.